Show I r1 L v I p I J lL tk k t Jt 6t k t I I U f I Is 1 I f jcl C i I = l 7 ij tJG r G rr6 The record of the Salt Lake theatre for the largest continuous run of business for three nights and a matinee must have been broken by the AH Baba engagement engage-ment The piece enjoyed a regular wrorc and the whole town is talking about it And truly it was a marvelous production The scenery which is in nine sets and four tableaux is by Frederick Danger field who painted the beautiful canvass of the Crystal Slipper and Sinbad Ali Baba surpasses in pictorial display either of these two famous pieces The costumes of the production were made from designs of Howell Russell of London Lon-don and Baron de Grimm of New York The greater part of them were made in the wardrobe rooms of the Chicago opera house under the supervision of Mme Elise FreisinRer but about one hundred of the garments were brought over fro Europe where they were made by Al the celebrated London costumer imported costumes comprise the tf > es of the forty thieves and hoe of one ballet The canvass alone which went into the scenery of the piece cost nearly 2500 The paints D h metal and tinsel used probably cost twi that amount and there was lumber enough consumed to build a good 3story house There are nearly 700 costumes worn in Ali Baba and the materials used in them are of the very best quality tho richest and most expensive silks satins and plushes To give a faint idea of the cost of this equipment it may be mentioned that just seventysix of them were brought from England and cost in that country 1580 The duty on them at the New York custom f house was 3100 so that the cost of about oneninth of the costumes worn in the piece landed in New York city reached almost 11003 > without the freight or original cost of the designs The theater will bo dark till Friday night when Katie Putnam an old Salt Lake favorite and the wife of a Salt Laker will hold the boards in her new play An Unclaimed Express Package which received its initial presentstion and thorough rehearsals at Miss Put nams summer home Benton Harbor Mich It is said that Miss Putnam never appeared to better advantage than in the part she essays offering greater scope for her talents than other characters in which she has stormed the hearts of her audiences audi-ences She is sure of a warm reception here when she plays Friday and Saturday nights and at the matinee On Saturday night she will appear as Dads Girl The great singer Marietta Alboni recently re-cently celebrated in Paris the fiftieth anniversary an-niversary of her public appearance She quitted the stage in the Plentitude of her vocal powers at the age of 38 Her voice was a superb contralto embracing almost three octaves from E fiat to Csharp On the recent occasion she sang with mar vellous voice an aria from Romeo and Juliet The secret of her ability to sing it tb a age of 65 is attributed to the fact of her never having forced her voice All the first singers in Paris as well as several sev-eral members of the Corned Francaise made a point of doing honor to Mme Al bonis golden wedding but as was to be anticipated they were all overshadowed over-shadowed by the glory of her still undimmed un-dimmed genius The Theatre of Arts and Letters from I which so much was expected has so far been a miserable failure A New York dramatic paper says The object of the Theatre of Arts and Letters is to develop dramatic ability not alone in the line of play writing but in the direction of acting act-ing as well There have been hundreds upon hundreds of complaints for years back against the managers of American theatres on the ground that they would not accept and in many cases refused oven to read plays brought to their consideration con-sideration by native writers To demonstrate demon-strate the erroneous system for so many years in vogue this theatre was undertaken under-taken Its first performance has served chiefly as a vindication of the managers whose shortcomings it was intended to expose Miss Susie Bowers of Williamsport Pa has created quite a sensation at the Conservatory of Music in Hamburg Germany Ger-many where the young lady who is but seventeen years old performed the GMoll Concerto by Bruch Viextemps Fan tasie Caprice and a difficult sonata by Rust all in one evening Her execution on the violin is said to be of faultless purity and precision and she executes the most difficult passages with wonderful wonder-ful flexibility The immense audience bestowed upon the young artist the most enthusiastic applause and called her to the footlights not less than a dozen times during the concert Miss Bowers expects I to reach America in July and will probably prob-ably join a prominent concert organization organiza-tion Mile Calve the newest successful prima donna is almost an invalid having to resort to medicinal restoratives to keep her strength up through a performance as Clara Morris had to do But the fire of genius burns high in her weak frame When Cavalleria was to be produced in Paris a famous tenor was engaged to sing the role of Turridu but before the duet scene was reached tenor basso alto all were forgotten in a mad storm of applause ap-plause that greeted the hitherto unknown Calves Santuzza Sh is to sing Carmen for the first time in Paris soon and to fit herself for the part she went to Spain in the hottest part of summer established her maid at a hotel and then went and lived for a month in the gypsy quarter Thogitanas who soon learned her pur posep helped her in every way They taught her to dance the gypsy dances to wear the gypsy dress and to do her hair in the gypsy style and now Paris expects ex-pects such a realization of Bizets heroine as she has never Seen Nat C Goodwin who is on the top wave of success nowadays in his new play A Gilded Fool has some welldefined ideas I of the province of a comedian He says Some people have an idea that the comedian come-dian is merely the actor who makes his audience laugh Not so that is only one phase of him a very essential phase to be sure but by no means the whole of him He must portray varied emotions Tears are one feature in which his work may and often should lecitimately result One of the prettiest touches in A Gilded Fool to my mind is where Chauncey Short narrates his pathetic experience in seeking seek-ing for his uncle and returning to his mother The side light of pathos accentuates accen-tuates the comedy ol the piece Perhaps this gives you anj Idea of my reasons for desiring to work more and more into serious seri-ous plays I was introduced to Ellen Terry says a cotrespondent by Mr Edward Greer ana an-a Q a r r I old friend of hers in his bricabracshop The actress was sprawling on the polished floor at the time toying with a big pink vase Her face was worn and rouged her hair of a suspicious blonde tint but her smile was cheery and her voice music mu-sic Yes its true she said in reply Ito I-to my query I do occasionally stir things up at rehearsals when rehearsals are inclined to become dull and prosy Only a short time ago I at first shocked aad then delighted Mr Irving and the I company by sliding down a balustrade behind the scenes I am a nervous irritable 1 ir-ritable woman but then I have my moments mo-ments of exuberant hilarity I j Gossipers abroad say that Sarah Bern hardts reckless son Maurice has squandered squan-dered all of his own fortune and not a little of Sarahs money at baccarat and as his independent little wife refuses to support him any longer they have quar relIed and separated Then business has not been exactly successful of late with the great actress Several of her ventures ven-tures have not been rich in results Finally Fin-ally they have burlesque here Cleopatra and represented th d ine as mildly dancing and singirp Tarara Boomda ay and Sarah dot ent Re it a bit These plays and players were seen at the Philadelphia play house last week Grand opera house TheEnglish Rose Chestnut street opera house Rose and Charles Coghlan in Diplomacy Chestnut I I Chest-nut street theatre Gloriana Broad street Francis Wilson in The Lion I I Tamer Peoples Shadows of a Great ltyd Park Miss Helyett and Char + te Collins in Tarara Valnut I SL et The Country Circus Arch I I sti t New Devils Auction Stan I dai 1 The Messenger from Jarvis Sec I 11 < i Corncrossoperahouse minstrelsy t 1 tJou variety Killens magic I The Montana statue controversy served I an admirable purpose for free advertising I I for a number of actresses who paraded 11 I their claims for beauty of figure before the public As a matter of fact not one of them is really a model Lillian Russell Rus-sell is a very pretty woman but her ankles will not pa s muster As for Marie Tempest her limbs are rather shapely but there is not enough of them I This cannot apply to Cora Tanner whose limbs are rather too bulky for the line of beauty Least of all is AdaRehan a fitting subject There are too many deficiencies in the lines of that ladys face and figure to warrant the assumption that she is a beautiful woman in the strict sense of the word When Mascagni heard the announcement announce-ment that Cavalleria Rusticana had won Sonzognos prize of 100 he was so little known that he had to get the father of a girl to whom he had given music lessons les-sons to identify him before he could get his moneyit was the money he wanted for he heeded it and he had not the faintest faint-est idea of the fame he had won Now he employs two secretaries to helD him through his correspondence and he has had 1100 librettos submitted for his most august consideration William H Crane played last week in Brooklyn Stuart Robson and Sol Smith Russell in Chicago Annie Ward Tiffiany in Albany Clara Morris in Portland Or Nat C Goodwin in Cincinnati Charles Dickson iu San Francisco Annie Pixley in Pittsburg Julia Marlowe iu Nebraska towns Joseph Murphy in St Paul James ONeill in Nebraska cities Rosina Vokes in Washington Robert Downing in Memphis Tenn Thomas W Keene in Columbus O Henry E Dixey has made a failure in Mr Dobbs of Chicago and after haying hay-ing proved a fizzle under two names it Is safe to say that the public dont want the play Dixey is however going to make another effort to catch on and will probably star in Adonis Up to Now which will begin its season at Newark on Jan 23 Dixeys star seems to have set Booths surroundings in Hamlet used to be a little like those of Mr Wop sic when he undertook the same part the courtiers of the Danish monarch being represented by one page of a distinctly female fe-male appearance and one brassencircled warrior while the reigning majesties of Denmark sat aloft on a wooden table the queen with a gold headband passing under un-der her chin and giving her the appearance appear-ance of one who is suffering from a magnificent mag-nificent form of toothache The Bostonians are repeating 11 the Tremont Theater Boston the phi nom onal business done by them durin the past two months at the Garden Theater New York with Robin Hood This opera has been presented by the Bostonians Bosto-nians for five months in New York alone during the past year and throughout its last engagement there embracing November No-vember and December turned people away at every performance No other light opera of American authorship has aver attained the success of this the principal prin-cipal work of Messrs DeKoven and Smith Sardous new play Americans Abroad has been produced in NewYork ahead of its Parisian production and the general impression seems to be that all the powers of Miss Cay van Mr Kelcey Mr Lemoyne and the others of that admirable ad-mirable company were needed to save it from failure The plot reads as if America Abroad were pretty nearly as silly as Miss Hellyet The Call Bell The Grau Opera company is devastating Texas The Henry Mapleson Opera company is presenting Fadette in Alabama Madame Janauschek is meeting with most encouraging albeit unexpected success this season Mme Patti will shortly issue a volume of reminiscences The book is being edited by Mr BeattyKingston George W Lederer has purchased Venus the new comic opera joint work of Charles Byrne Louis Harrison and Gustav Kerker Miss Margaret Goetz has been engaged to sing at the winter Chautauqua assembly assem-bly at De Fnniak Springs Fla Feb 22 to March 2 Elenora Dnse the Italian actress will bring a company of thirty people with her to this country this month Mr Henry Irving intends to alternate Shakespeares Lear with Lord Tenny sons Becket > Frank Daniels proposes to purchase and stock an island off the southern coast of California with all sorts of game paying a man to reside and look after it Neil Bryant the old minstrel man brother of Jerry and Dan and well known to the generation of New Yorkers is living in Washington where he is a government gov-ernment clerk Dan Emmett the sweet singer of minstrelsy min-strelsy thirty years ago is living in Chicago Chi-cago earning his living playing the violin vio-lin He composed Dixie Dan Rice who was a jolly circus clown when the men of today got into the show by creeping under the tent is living in New York He is hale and hearty and a great story teller It is said with much seriousness that Pugilist John L Sullivan is anxious to beseen In The Gladiator He is said to have secured a copy of Dr Birds trag > u v edy and to be studying the principal part with a view of playing it I In the technical parlance of the stage carpenter the scenery of Ali Baba is composed seventysix drops and 210 wings It took 29230 square yards of canvas to make the pictorial gorgeousness gorgeous-ness that one seas in the play I The last California tour of the Bostonians Boston-ians will be made this winter Though this organization has become a recognized and welcome visitor to San Francisco its time is in such demand in Eastern cities that the overland trip will not be made i next year Miss Pauline Hall during the run of Enninie at the New York casino extending ex-tending over two years and a half never missed a single performance She was equally prompt and well during her entire association with that house a period of I five years Augustus Thomas the author of Alabama i Ala-bama has written a new play which I according to Gen N P Banks shows i the domestic and felicitous side of the war It is ald Surrender and has to do with the surrender of three Union soldiers to the charms of three Southern girls Henry Guy Carleton is doing well as a playwright Of course we never hear of Victor Dnrand now but Frederick Warde is playing The Lions Mouth five times a week A Gilded Fool is j doing well in New York he has just finished fin-ished a new play for W H Crane and Charles Frohman has just ordered a comedy com-edy from him Aiinnls of the Stage Irving first appeared as Hamlet in London Lon-don 1874 Cookes first star appearance was in 1786 as Baldwin Mrs Jordans last appearance was as Lady Teazle in 1814 Mrs Siddons debut as a star was in 17B2 she died in 1831 Schillers Robbers was written while he was still in college The most prominent actor in the miracle mira-cle play was the devil In China every village has its theatre every city has several Mrs Oldfield first appeared as Alinda in Vanburgs Pilgrim Roman women were admitted to trad geies but not to comedies Edwin Booth first appeared in ISm in a minor part of Richard III Real water in a stage cataract was first used at Drury Lane in 1823 The stage in the theatre of Bacchus was 72 feet wide and 10 feet deep Edmund Kean first appeared on the stage at 3 as a cupid in 1790 Edmund Keans debut was at Drury Lane in 1S14 he died in 1833 The first theatres in France were built for miracle and morality plays Charles Keans debut was at Drury Lane as Norval 1827 died 1868 In ancient theatres spectators were seated according to their rankIn rank-In the plays of Aristophanes public men were caricatured by name Rachels first appearance in England was atthe Queens theatre 1S41 Horses were first introduced on an English Eng-lish stage in Blue Beard in 1811 A single Chinese play oiten lasts during dur-ing the evenings of a fortnight u iuawm orrescs nrst appearance was in 1S2D as Douelas in Homes play Forrests first star appearance was I Spartacus Drury Lane 1836 died 1872 In Shakspeares time wits critics and i noblemenw ere given seats on the stage Greek performances began at 7 oclock in the morning and lasted twelve hours The Colleen Bawn was brought out at the Adelphi London in 1S60 330 nights In Shakspeares time the prices of admission 1 ad-mission varied from a penny to ashillicg Marlowes Faust was the best tradgeuy in English before the time of Sbakspeare I I In Shakspeares day there were three private and four public theatres in London I Lon-don The Old Prices Riots a demand for return to former admission fees were in 1809 Salvini first appeared in England as Othello and Hamlet at Drury Lane in 1875 In Shakspeares day there was no other scenery than tapestry hangings and curtains cur-tains In the Roman theatre women performed per-formed in mimics but not in regular plays Greek machinery for supernatural effects ef-fects was elaborate but now little understood under-stood The first appearance of Sothern in London Lon-don was in the Haymarket in 1S61 498 nights Greek theatres had no roofs but porticos porti-cos to which the spectators retired when it rained Macreadys first london appearaiiff was as Orestes Covent Garden 1816 retired 1 re-tired 1851 < lea JL73 |